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I'm a somm and a Rawlsian. Great ideas are like great wines, requiring decades of aging. In order to move forward, we must first study our past. repairtheconstitution.blogspot.com
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"I made $50k a year and worked to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.” www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/21/r...

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Estimated percentage of Americans who are incarcerated, on parole, or on probation who have had a traumatic brain injury: 45 --Harpers Index

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He nails it.

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"We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” a European diplomat said. “The transatlantic alliance is over.”

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The girl w/a diamond smile, murdered by the Catholic Church. Ireland, the scariest sex-prison in the Western world, at civil war with everything from the solitary vice to homosexuality, finally changed its laws, whereas Alito doubles-down on murder. He *likes* it. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

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These men lie as easily as they breathe. So did Obama, about consumer-mortgage relief. So did W, about war. So did HRC, about "superpredators". So did Gipper, about the laugher called a Laffer curve. The Office of the Presidency is a war crime, and should be abolished. prospect.org/world/2025-0...

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America: Nazi salutes from our unelected Chancellor, .50cal bullets in classrooms, Jim Crow ballot-denialism from the Roberts Robe Robbers, and the ongoing genocide of forced pregnancy. Sam Alito isn't a judge. He's the Joseph Goebbels of femicide. open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

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Sometimes, "Move fast, break things," just results in a lot of broken things.

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It’s a conundrum. 🤷‍♂️

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"This was all government by consent of the governed, with Congress passing, the president signing, and the courts upholding the constitutionality of these newly created agencies." In a true democracy, minorities (#, not race) are protected in many ways, but they don't tell the majority what to do.

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My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. --Yeats That's really sad, btw.

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There are no conflict-of-interest rules for Presidents. Phooey, the Framers must have overlooked that. Too bad we are not ever allowed to update the Supreme Law.

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I'm tellin' yuh, that wind today will rip your face off, like a killer rabbit .... youtube.com/shorts/TSulY...

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